Hi , This year damson plums have done very well. So well infact that I need more ideas of what to do with them. We have made a concentrated juice , bottled them, and made a spicy chuckney.
So any other ideas ? I prefer to bottle than freeze, although I am open to any suggestions.
I have bottled up 10 large jars of courgettes with carrot, onion + spices, that was a neat Russian recipe.
Our peas and beans are going well, way better than last year, and we bottled last weekend.
Forest mushrooms start soon, so its all go go.
Anyway back to my damson problem. I sent out some visiting friends to pick damsons yesterday and being enthusiastic Brussels townies they came back with 10 kilos for me. So it is a 10 kilo problem.
thanks Kevin
South Bucks the same but we have had some sun this morning. I am going to pick blackberries this afternoon to make jelly. I have already made some pectin from my windfall apples, so it should set well (if I can find enough jars....)
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."
from Les Miserables
plum sauce is delicious and keeps well; I use a combination of the Lakeland one and recipes from the net
Essentially you cook the plums in vinegar; then strain them trough a sieve or mouli
Finally add sugar and spices and reduce down.
Keeps very well and is DELISH with chicken or pork cubed and fried and then sauce added until reduced even further; serve with rice
Would love to know your virtuous HP recipe Janet as we are nearly out from our bottle we brought back from the UK.
mrsmortis said:
Plum Ketchup. There's a recipe in Delia's Complete Cookery Course. It's a huge favourite round here and I've used damsons in it before. I upped the sugar slightly to compensate as the recipe is written for Victoria Plums but either way it's one that I keep getting asked for more of.
The plum ketchup sounds good. At the weekend we found another treeful of wild plums (and big uns too). Some were ripe but a lot were still very sour. I might give that a go if I manage to pick enough.
Edit: I meant to say the recipe is on delia's website here
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That's the recipe I use Mrsmortis.
Joanna do you have the delia cook book, here's a link to the recipe which is on line, if you need me to post it to the forum I can do (sorry I forgot the other day, had a busy weekend)
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